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In 1963, the U.S. Department of Defense established a designation system for rockets and guided missiles jointly used by all the United States armed services. [1] It superseded the separate designation systems the Air Force and Navy had for designating US guided missiles and drones, but also a short-lived interim USAF system for guided missiles and rockets.
The Douglas GAM-87 Skybolt (AGM-48 under the 1963 Tri-service system) was a hypersonic air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM) developed by the United States during the late 1950s. The basic concept was to allow US strategic bombers to launch their weapons from well outside the range of Soviet defenses, as much as 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from ...
Only aircraft designated after the adoption of the Tri-Service system are listed below. For aircraft in the sequence designated before 1962, see List of United States Air Force aircraft designations (1919–1962) § H: Helicopter (1948–1962). H-46 Sea Knight – Boeing Vertol; H-47 Chinook – Boeing Vertol; H-48 – Bell (redesignated UH-1F)
A slightly modified version, designated RP-78, was supplied to the U.S. Navy; it used a more powerful rocket, producing 99,000 lb f (440 kN) of thrust, [4] to propel the drone to a top speed of Mach 1.25. [2] In 1963, the RP-76 and RP-78 received the designations AQM-38A and AQM-38, respectively, in the new "tri-service" missile designation ...
The Ford MGM-51 Shillelagh was an American anti-tank guided missile designed to be launched from a conventional gun (cannon). It was originally intended to be the medium-range portion of a short, medium, and long-range system for armored fighting vehicles in the 1960s and '70s to defeat future armor without an excessively large gun.
Merge - Merge into both the 1962 Tri-Service aircraft and 1963 Tri-Service missile/rocket system articles. The article makes unsupported claims that Regulation 4120.15 is a designation system itself which replaced the Tri-Service systems, which is original research and inaccurate.
The Navy planned to get the Bulldog into service by 1974. A version for ground handling training known as the ATM-83A was also planned. However, in 1972 it was decided that the Navy should instead procure a laser-guided version of the Air Force's AGM-65 Maverick , the AGM-65C—which itself was later cancelled in favour of the AGM-65E.
Rocketry—rockets and rocket engines, and the vehicles, missiles, and other items propelled by them. Subcategories This category has the following 16 subcategories, out of 16 total.